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What About the Rainforests?

            Once covering fourteen percent of the earth's land surface, rainforests have slowly but surely been reduced to a mere six percent of land surface. At this rate, in forty years the rainforest could be completely consumed by the age's industrial giants, but it seems as though no one is realizing, more or less caring that the rainforests and their thousands of species are being destroyed each year. In order to keep our rainforests in tact, we have to start caring about what is happening and maybe how we can stop it; Hence the title: What about the rainforest? (www.rain-tree.com).
             When you first think of the rainforests, you probably are thinking about heat, tall towering trees, and hundreds of plants and animals. One day those trees, plants, and animals will not be there unless we do something about the now occurring problems. I bet you never thought these things would be gone, did you?.
             Did you know over one hundred and fifty-seven plant, animal and insect species are killed every day and over fifty thousand are killed every year? Or that at least one-half of the worlds plant, animal, and insect species will be extinct or severely threatened within the next twenty-five years. Those are the types of facts that we do not hear about or stop to think about. Maybe we should start thinking about the problems at hand. The problems are not going to get any better, the deforestation of the rainforests has been going on for years now and we do not realize it yet but we are strongly effected by it. (www.rainforest.com).
             The Amazon Rainforest is the largest and most harmed rainforest of today. One hundred and twenty-one prescription drugs that are sold throughout the world come from plant-derived sources and twenty-five percent of these prescription drugs are sold in Western pharmaceuticals. These prescription's are derived of rainforests plants from the Amazon Rainforest. For every ten acres of the Amazon that we cut down, many of the plants and trees that have not yet been tested go with it.


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